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Neoliberal Feudalism's avatar

As the U.S. inches closer and closer to losing its superpower and world reserve currency status, its peripheries will come under increasing strain -- i.e. Israel, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, control over Europe, etc. The U.S. population has no appetite for another boots-on-ground Middle Eastern war after the disasters of Afghanistan and Iraq, no matter how hard Fox News tries to shill it onto the retarded masses. Also, the West seems to have no counter to cheap drones at this point, and Iran is the master of them (and hence their proxies are benefitting).

Furthermore, Israel is unable to decisively win a war against its neighbors because the illusion that Hamas/Hezbollah are somehow divorced from the population that supports them is completely nonsensical, yet Israel cannot punish the non-combatant populations without incurring a level of PR hits that could put its existence at risk (given it basically relies fully on the U.S. for its existence). It's best possibility would be to push the Gazan population out of Gaza, but no one wants to take them given how difficult they are (see the instability in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon etc. that they cause). Not a single Middle East country will offer the Palestinians citizenship or refuge, and it would be beyond foolish for the West to try to take them in.

Definitely a grim situation for Israel moving forward.

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Steve Fleischer's avatar

I can debate an awful lot of points in this article, but Kulak raises a lot of points that we should consider.

Pray that she is wrong.

But history would suggest that there is at least a possibility of some of this being right.

And both political and military leaders need to keep this in mind.

Israel needs to win every war.

The Arabs only need to win once.

If you think that there is a lot of antisemitism now, think about a world where 7 millions Israeli Jews are looking for a home.

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